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Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 offers for the first time, fully text-searchable images of the British Foreign Office information files gathered from across German-occupied territories following the collapse of peacetime diplomacy.
This collection offers those investigating conditions in Europe during World War II a unique source of invaluable information collected from papers received in the Foreign Office. Documented are German attempts to win over important groups in occupied countries; the reaction to and effect of the German occupation; the propaganda struggle; the creation of the first resistance units; and repercussions of events such as the German invasion of Russia. The collection includes detailed information, indexed by year and country regarding Belgium, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Vatican, Portugal and Luxembourg, as well as general files regarding Europe as a whole.